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i am not a dodgy person or indeed a criminal i thought sharing this may infact stop this happening to someone else i thought like many had pointed out give the police the receipt and they would take the recently purchased bike and go get the real criminal not the case they looked at it put it in...

i understand the explanation ect my point is infact this i feel this story should have been shared with others so that perhaps someone else would not be put through what i was. and with the joys of internet nowadays it is easy for criminals to pass their wares many miles away from where they...

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at least someones on the level

as i have rigorously explained they took anything bike related the stolen bike my road bike my xc bike unfortunately i did not have the receipts for the other bikes as i had owned them for a while but i think they would have taken anyway even if i did perhaps i need to contact them and try to...

whatever their reasons for why i was treated in this manner are still quite unclear to me my health was affected as i went from cycling many miles a day to nothing for the time they had my bike perhaps they did believe there may be more stolen goods on the premises but the fact of the matter is...

thanks gerry i think you have hit the nail on the head there i dont think the police took my personal bikes because they thought there was anything dodgy about them but simply because they could and were flexing their muscles the fact i was not handcuffed at any time would tell most they did not...

damn wrong site thought this was a site about older bikes must get off here and immediately buy myself a new bike sorry to have wasted your time all

this was posted on here not only to see if i had overlooked anything in the checking of bikes and everything i have been told i could have done little more to protect myself i bought from a sellers house in a seemingly nice area for a good price. there are limited tools available to us when it...

i spoke to my solicitor in the hope they may have over stepped the mark but was told no matter how heavy handed it seemed they were acting lawfully as i say it is a misconception we are innocent until prooven guilty as i was clearly treated as guilty until prooven innocent my conclusion to this...

i thought it a good idea to share this story im sorry if it seems a little far fetched to you but it is a true account of what happened oh well listen or not i dont really care and i wonder how many of you are riding about on stolen bikes hope you dont discover this in the same way i did

you are welcome to your oppinion if i was a criminal i would not be telling my story on here for self opinionated judgmental people such as yourself to pick the bones out of i shared my story in the hope that someone else may not make the same mistakes as i did quite why the police felt...

yes i had a solicitor who was quite gobsmacked i was being treated in this way i and solicitor had contacted many times before my bail date only to be told they can keep as long as they liked as i say my health was affected but a buyer of stolen goods is treated as a criminal no matter what the...

well stylus i hope the same thing happens to you someday as then you will understand victims of crime come in all shapes and sizes someone who unwittingly buys a stolen item only to learn of this when plod knocks on the door is as much a victim as the person who have had their goods stolen in...

the fact is this is an occupational hazard for any one buying and selling bikes wether it is bought and sold straight away or used for a number of years and then sold the risk is there and as well as seeking further advice to see if there was anything i could have further done to avoid this...

the bike was bought to sell i paid a reasonable amount for it in my eyes and had to do some work to get it to a sellable condition the rightful owner had seen it up for sale and recognised it as his bike and as a consequence informed the police. i have bought and sold pushbikes as a passtime...

i still think i done all i could everything advised are all things i would always do as i say the written dated addressed and phone numbered receipt meant nothing to the police in their eyes i was a criminal peddling stolen goods and that was that i thought we were innocent until prooven guilty...

thanks for that advice that is all things i always bear in mind however still got my fingers burned yes the bike was a good price however the seller seemed to have a plausible reason to be selling and i considered it to be a fair price for the condition of the bike allowing for a small profit...

having recently bought a bike that turned out to be stolen i am wary of every bike i see obviously the only way to be 100% sure is if the seller has original receipt which is a rarity which would fetch a very high premium when it comes to retro mtb,s. Does this mean to say i should avoid all but...

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